Downtown Social Club Tu B’shvat Mixology Evening—POSTPONED TO 2/16

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017

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Downtown Social Club

Tu B’shvat Mixology Evening

Thursday, February 9 -- due to the snow storm, this event has been moved to February 16 

7:00 PM

$36/person

Click here to register.

Celebrate Tu B'Shvat by creating your own alcoholic fruit infusion to take home during this mixology class with Privateer Run Disterilly from Ipswich. Evening includes appetizers and drinks.

Tu B'Shvat, the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shvat, is a holiday also known as the New Year for Trees. The word "Tu" is not really a word; it is the number 15 in Hebrew. The holiday is observed on the 15th (tu) of the Hebrew month of Sh'vat. Scholars believe that originally Tu BiSh'vat was an agricultural festival, marking the emergence of spring. In the 17th century, Kabbalists created a ritual for Tu BiSh'vat that is similar to a Passover seder. Today, many Jews hold a modern version of the Tu BiSh'vat seder each year. The holiday also has become a tree-planting festival in Israel, in which Israelis and Jews around the world plant trees in honor or in memory of loved ones and friends. One custom is to eat a new fruit on Tu B'Shvat, or to eat from the Seven Species (shivat haminim) described in the Bible as being abundant in the land ofIsrael. The Shivat Haminim are: wheat, barley, grapes (vines), figs, pomegranates, olives and dates (honey) (Deut. 8:8).

 

Vilna Shul offers $5 validated parking after 4pm and on weekends. Parking validation is only good for the underground parking at the Charles River Plaza/ Cambridge Street Garage at 165 Cambridge Street. Entrance to the underground garage is between the Charles River Plaza Shopping Center (Whole Foods/CVS) and Au Bon Pain, near the intersection of Blossom St and Cambridge St. Yellow tickets from the surface lot at Whole Foods cannot be validated.